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Re:Plex laid off the whole player team on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @03:50PM (#50186612)
Bummer. Anyway, the Nautilus Jellyfin client for the Apple TV rules.
Re:Timestral: Mistral release time-series foundation models on Monday October 19, 2026 @10:10AM (#50152747)
0.03 in what units?
Re:Cop Explains Why He Used License Plate Reader to Stalk Woman on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @04:04PM (#49366488)
I'm sure once Flock notifies departments of these bad apples, they will take swift inaction.
Re:OpenRouter is joining Stripe on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @02:59PM (#49365762)
What's with naming proprietary stuff "open"?
Even when you paid for software in the Good Old Days it was guaranteed to be compatible with ONE version of your OS, e.g. Windows 95. When you upgraded Windows, you'd often need to buy a new edition.
> "I recognize that a year-long restructuring creates additional challenges," Sharma said in a passage of the message, according to CNBC. "Unfortunately, it is not possible to make all the necessary changes in a single day." He said the division will return to growth next year.

Whoever wrote this doesn't even know Asha Sharma is a woman.

Re:Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256? on Monday June 01, 2026 @02:56PM (#48361082)
If you have a ruler and it goes to 12 inches, you should normalize by the length L and not by 13, the number of points on the ruler.
Re:We accidentally recreated old Facebook on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @04:35PM (#48114164)
"we realized that this feels a lot like old FB - no ads, no ‘discover’, no algorithms. Just posts from people you know."

holy chatgpt

Re:I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK on Monday April 06, 2026 @12:55PM (#47663511)
old.reddit.com
Re:RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @02:38PM (#47327166)
Hot take: I think the em-dash is just lazy punctuation that can be replaced by the more nuanced pauses, i.e. the comma, semicolon, and colon. I think its popularity stems from people being confused on how to use a semicolon.
My Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller didn't work with my Mac, so I had Claude write me a driver. Amazing times we live in. (As long as I still have a job so I can buy controllers in ten years.)
Re:LG UltraFine Evo 6K 32-inch Monitor Review on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @10:57AM (#46707481)
If this had a higher refresh rate I'd be making unwise financial decisions today
I'm tired of this pseudointellectual reductionist response. It's not "literally by accident" when they're trained to do something, as if we are not also machines that generate next actions based on learned neural weights and abstract (embedded) representations. Your issue is with semantics rather than content.

Obviously "hallucinate" and "lie" are metaphors. Get over it. These are still emergent structures that we have a lot to learn from by studying. But I suppose any attempt by researchers to do so should be disregarded because Person On The Internet has watched the 3blue1brown series on Neural Nets and knows better. We know the basic laws of physics, but spend lifetimes studying their emergent behaviors. This is really no different.

Re:We Remain Alive Also in a Dead Internet on Friday November 21, 2025 @04:47PM (#46009367)
This is a non-response.
Re:We Remain Alive Also in a Dead Internet on Friday November 21, 2025 @04:46PM (#46009354)
I'm also losing my ability to tolerate prose without headings, but I think that's symptomatic of this bigger issue.
Re:Google Antigravity on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @02:49PM (#45971115)
I cannot stand webpages that hijack scrolling like that.
Re:BERT Is Just a Single Text Diffusion Step on Monday October 20, 2025 @12:20PM (#45645665)
That is not contrary to token-at-a-time approach.
Re:Who Invented Backpropagation? on Monday August 18, 2025 @12:39PM (#44942588)
It's just an application of the chain rule. It's not interesting to ask who invented it.
This misses the point of isospin. Isospin is an approximate SU(2) symmetry due to the fact that the up and down quarks (the "light" quarks) have very similar masses compared to the rest of the quarks, so they can be approximated as two different eigenstates of the same particle. It's mathematically identical to the SU(2) symmetry of a spin-half particle. The reason it doesn't include the other quarks is because they are so much more massive.
Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @01:06PM (#42952628)
For better or worse, news flows through social media, so this approach basically amounts to ignoring all the bad stuff going on. If you read HN, chances are you can probably safely get through the next four years doing this. But as the saying goes, "first they came for the communists..."
> grand vector space

what.

Re:Is Psychology Going to Cincinnati? on Thursday October 10, 2024 @03:31PM (#41802582)
What a stereotypical hackernews comment, wow.

> I, a completely unqualified internet commenter,

Just leave it there.

I am a physicist working in ML and this is an absolutely bonkers comment lol
My problem is I learn some tool like this, set it, and then indeed forget it. Then I avoid testing my backups because of the work it takes to un-forget it. Because of this, I'm leaning more and more towards rsync or tools that have GUI frontends.
Re:The Myth of the Coder and Programmer on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @02:03PM (#41370726)
> the programmer he calls what he does "engineering" which he deems equivalent to what rocket engineers do when they "engineer" a rocket that flies into space, but instead of a rocket it's some website.

Bingo. The (very American) dilution of the title "engineer" has been sad to see.

Haidt is a reactionary who makes grandiose conjectures about the Kids These Days with little real scientific evidence to back them up. He's the same guy who threw a fit over safe spaces in colleges and made them out to be a way bigger deal than the were/are.
I have always found neural network diagrams like the RNN one here to be very vague and even slightly misleading. What does it mean that h_t loops onto itself? While I know that it means "take as input h_{t-1} also", the diagram itself does not illustrate the concept to the primary person looking at such a diagram, i.e. someone wanting to learn about the architecture.